e-Digest Statistics about: Waste and Recycling
EU Waste Statistics Regulation: Introduction
In December 2002, the EU Waste Statistics Regulation (EC 2150/2002) was published in the Official Journal of the European Communities. The Regulation requires Member States to provide the Commission with information on the generation, recovery and disposal of waste every two years. Please see the PDF at the following link Waste Statistics Regulation.
The objective of this Regulation is to establish a framework for the production of European Union-wide statistics on the generation, recovery and disposal of waste. This should create the basis for monitoring the implementation of waste policy and compliance with the principles of European Union waste legislation with the aim of maximising recovery and safe disposal.Data are reported every two years and the next return, pertaining to 2008, is required by mid-2010.
Data for 2004 (Excel 104 KB) and 2006 (Excel 107 KB) have been compiled by Defra on behalf of the United Kingdom, and the 2006 return was sent to Eurostat in June 2008. A number of different sources of data were used to populate the reporting matrices. These various sources are discussed in detail in the quality reports which accompany the data submitted to Eurostat and are available on request.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland produced comprehensive Waste Statistics Regulation returns in order that Defra could produce a UK submission. Please see the following websites for more information about each countries return:
Scotland: Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Northern Ireland: Department of the Environment Northern Ireland
Wales: Environment Agency, Managing waste in Wales
Page last modified: 21 January 2008
Page published: 5 January 2007